Nursing Homes

Discuss specific nursing homes at patrick.net

By Patrick Killelea, p@patrick.net

My mother, Diane Killelea, was in a nursing home from just after my father died on 10 June 2008 until she herself died on 17 October 2008.

My brother and sisters and I had a hard time trying to quickly figure out the system, between Medicare, Medicaid, admissions policies, physical therapy, and hospice care. I wished there were some website where we could discuss these things with other relatives of patients in the same situation.

Sometimes we talked with other patients' relatives in the halls, or happened to get good advice from friends and acquaintances, but the corporate offices of the nursing homes and the various government agencies all have their own profit or funding agendas, so they were not of much use in getting clear and unbiased answers.

So I decided to make online chat boards, one for each nursing home in America, where the relatives of patients in that home can help each other decode the system and get those patients good care without bankrupting themselves.

Here is the main page, to search for specific nursing homes.

Here is the forum for general comments on nursing homes.